I cleaned out the dust with compressed air and HOOKED it back up.
The floppy drive started to make a noise like a hard drive and the light is on all the time.
Its a lot quiter when i put in a disk but it wont read it.
I've disconected the drive, but need it for some programs i have to install after i do a format and install of xp.
Any suggestions would be appreciated
Thanks Rob
I have like 15 floppy drives here and half of them don't work on my Windows XP. It could be your floppy disk that isn't working.Thanks for your input Carbon'''', but there was no noise from floppy drive before I cleaned it out.
I DONT think it is normal for the light to be on when there is no disk INSERTED is it?
It just sounded like a hard drive trying to find something about half speedHow old is this drive? They TEND to not last too terribly long, so perhaps it's time for a new one.CBMatt
The drive is 2 years old same as the computer
It's only been used about 6 times
Only to save a few programs and to add a fewThey are fairly inexpensive to replace...just make sure you get the IDE cable correct or it won't work.Floppy is now fixed
I dissabled it in bios and left it that way until i needed to use it
Thought i'd try it once more before replacing and when i powered it back up, low and behold it worked fine.
Luck smiles sometimes. BobThe light remaining on is frequently a sign that the data cable is backwards. Did you remove it?No GX1
Only cleaned out the case and did'nt touch nothin inside
had it turned off in bios for like 3 weeks and then when i turned it back on all was quite and no light on. All is normal at the moment
If ya like a challenge than CHECK out my other thread (ms 2003. lost word)
Catch ya there. Bob